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❄️ Festive Errors: Add Some Year-Round Holiday Cheer to the Rails Error Page — Spice up your Rails error pages with fun holiday themes. Tis the season?

json v2.8: Ruby's JSON Implementation Gets Faster — Ruby’s json is depended on by (almost) everything so updates like this have far reaching implications. v2.8 includes significant performance improvements (up to 1.7x faster on real world documents) and support for optionally parsing trailing commas.

Ruby 3.3.6 Released — Don’t get too excited, it’s a scheduled minor bug fix release and removes some default gem warnings. Nonetheless, it’s a straightforward upgrade for Ruby 3.3 and the last one of 2024 as v3.3.7 is expected on January 7.

Memetria K/V: High-Performance Key-Value Hosting — Boost your Ruby apps with Memetria K/V, providing portable, easy-to-use hosting for Redis OSS and Valkey. Scale your applications with ease and achieve high performance. Includes detailed analytics and large key memory tracking.

What is Rack? — An in-depth journey through Rack, the protocol that makes Sinatra sing and Rails run, starting from scratch by creating a Rack-compliant app before using the conveniences of the Rack gem. A good look under the hood.

🌸 Hanami 2.2: Persistence Pays Off — A major release for the popular, alternative framework for building Ruby webapps. v2.2 adds a new and improved database layer, shown off well in this post. The new version represents the team’s complete vision for Hanami, so give it a test drive.

When it Comes to Weird Lexical Syntax, Ruby Wins? — When an experienced programmer goes on a tour of 42 languages while building a syntax highlighter, some fun insights pop up with, amusingly, Ruby getting a special mention: “Now here’s a language whose syntax evades all attempts at understanding.”

Pagy 9.2: The Popular Pagination Gem — It’s been around for years and still claims to be “the best pagination gem” – who are we to argue? v9.2.0 makes v9’s keyset pagination approach even more ‘wicked fast’ and adds more apps to its playground to play with and get started fast. GitHub repo.

JRuby 9.4.9.0 Released — An update to the Ruby 3.1 compatible line of the popular JVM-based Ruby implementation with a security fix and some compatibility and Java integration fixes.

🚨Running Unsupported Rails? Need to Catch Up Little by Little? — Rails 6.1 reached EOL! Avoid vulnerabilities & upgrade with 🌳 Bonsai, our fixed-cost monthly maintenance service.

Argon2id: Ruby Bindings to the Argon2 Password-Hashing Function — The goal is to be a drop-in replacement for bcrypt-ruby’s BCrypt::Password but using Argon2 instead. Precompiled for all major platforms and with no runtime dependencies.

ValidEmail2 6.0: ActiveModel Validation for Email — Check the legitimacy of email addresses including MX lookup and checking against a rather extensive list of disposable email services.

Benchmarking Ruby Parsers — Prism is (almost certainly going to be) the new default parser in Ruby 3.4, but is it the best-performing option? Benoit looks at several candidates, including Ripper and ruby_parser, and gives us the good news that yes, Prism is fast!

Ruby Video: An Index of ~4000 Ruby Talks — Over the past year, Ruby Video has brought together almost 4000 videos from over 2000 speakers and you’re encouraged to contribute your own too (though I'd be surprised if many talks remain to be found with these numbers!)

How to Compare Postgres EXPLAIN Plans & Tune Slow Queries — Are slow Postgres queries impacting your Ruby app performance? Join this webinar to learn how to diagnose and tune them effectively. We'll use pganalyze to walk through how to compare plans & debug common scenarios like inefficient nested loops & missing indexes.

Next Generation Out-of-Band Garbage Collection — ‘Out of band’ garbage collection is when GC is performed outside of the time when a user request is being served. This yields latency improvements in many scenarios, since you won’t have the GC ‘stopping the world’ at critical points. It’s hard to get just right, though, but that isn’t stopping attempts to make it better.

Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite — A written version of Stephen Margheim’s ▶️ exciting Rails World talk about Rails 8’s enhancements when it comes to SQLite and how SQLite can truly supercharge Rails development at the scales most of us are working.

How I Upgraded My Pet Project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 Minutes — Here’s a task a lot of us are likely to procrastinate about diligently do once the final version of Rails 8 lands.

Exploring Campfire's Tests — 37signals’ pay-once-host-yourself chat app provides a good look at how the canonical Rails shop builds things, so Kadu decided to check out its tests and found an elegantly simple approach.

GitHub Shortcut Commands That’ll Speed Up Your Code Reviews 💻 — Roundup of some of the best GitHub keyboard shortcuts that came up during a recent conversation on our dev team’s Slack.

HexaPDF 1.0.0: Powerful PDF Generation from Ruby — Ruby’s arguably most versatile PDF creation and manipulation library reaches v1.0, and there are still many more features to come, says Thomas. You can check out numerous examples with code here. Note that HexaPDF is AGPL licensed with a commercial licence option.

Rubocop Obsession: Cops for Higher-Level Concepts — The RuboCop linter is commonly used to raise the alarm on stylistic issues like long lines, indentation problems, and naming conventions. This goes a step further with code not broken into identifiable ‘paragraphs’, method ordering, and only testing public methods, among other things.

sqlite3-ruby 2.2.0: The Ruby Bindings for SQLite3 — With v2.2 we get improved multiline SQL syntax errors, as well as being able to use URI filenames when ‘connecting’ to a SQLite database.

Shale: Object Mapper and Serializer for Text Formats — A library for converting JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV and XML into Ruby data structures and back again. The homepage features many interactive examples worth checking out.